This Article Covers the following Topics- 1. Increase in rate of Service tax 2. Swachh Bharat Cess – Enabling Provision 3. Changes in relation to the Negative List – Section 66D of the Finance Act, 1994 4. Various other Sections under the Finance Act, 1994 5. Service Tax Rules, 1994 amended vide Notification No. 5/2015-ST […]
Article Covers the following Topics → Exemption widened on Service provided by transport of export goods by road from the place of removal to a land customs station (LCS) vide Notification No. 4/2015-ST dated 1-03-2015 (Effective From 1-04-2015) → Service Tax Rules, 1994 amended vide Notification No. 5/2015-ST dated 01-03-2015 → Changes in Mega Exemption […]
In the Union Budget, 2015 presented by the Hon’ble Finance Minister Shri. Arun Jaitley on February 28, 2015, Saturday, numerous changes in Direct and Indirect taxes, have been introduced to address the need of hour, the continued growth to contest the challenges paved in the way of progress. Changes in the Chapter V of the […]
We have presented below three video of CA Bimal Jain on Goods and Service Tax (GST). Video with following titles – 1. Goods and Services Tax – Need and Necessity (Part – 1) 2. Overview of Dual GST Model (Part – 2) 3. Highlights of 122nd Constitutional Amendment Bill Goods and Services Tax – Need […]
Hike in Service tax rates (From date to be notified): Service tax rate has been increased from 12.36% (including Education Cess and Secondary and Higher Education Cess) to flat 14%. The ‘Education Cess’ and ‘Secondary and Higher Education Cess’ shall be subsumed in the new Service tax rate. The revised rate shall come into effect from a date to be notified.
M/s Deloitte Haskins and Sells (the Appellant) is a firm providing services of practising Chartered Accountant and Management Consultancy services to clients in India and abroad. The Appellants were operating from the different locations, each with a separate Service tax registration number and the accounting operations were carried out from Worli address (registered unit).
The Hon’ble CESTAT, Ahmedabad, relying on the decision in the Meghmani Dyes case, held that if prescribed Returns are filed by Assessee giving correct information, then extended period of limitation cannot be invoked.
Modern Industrial Enterprises (MIE) and Florida Electrical Industries Ltd. (FIEL) (collectively referred to as ‘the Assessees’ were subject to independent search operations by the Central Excise Authorities on September 22, 2001
The Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of MDS Switchgear Pvt. Ltd. [2008 (229) ELT 485 (S.C.)], has held that Cenvat credit cannot be denied at the end of the recipients of the goods on the premise that higher duty has been paid by the manufacturer.
Hon’ble Apex Court judgment in the case of Chandrapur Magnet Wire (P) Ltd. Vs. CC, Nagpur [1996 (81) E.L.T. 3 (S.C.)], held that since the Cenvat credit initially taken was reversed without being utilised by the Assessee, it is to be treated as if the Assessee has not taken the Cenvat credit and hence, would be eligible for the exemption benefit under the Exemption Notification.
